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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
AMONG THE POLYGAMIsTs.
Decline of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the
New Law-Efects of Railroads.

New Law-Efects of Railroads.
Correspondence Springfield Republican.
The Mormon power is rapidly declining, and
will soon die away. Not because it is organ
ization established upon a religious faith, but
because that faith does not embrace the prin-
ciples of truth. 1t imposes injustice upon the
civilized world, by teaching practices autago-
nistic to the social customs of civilization It
imposes injustice upon its own members in ex-
acting from them unQuestioned obedience to the
laws of the Mormon Church regardless of all
other laws, ecclesiastical or civil 1t imposes
injustice upon the women of the church by
causing them to believe that they can gain saliva
ton only through husband and that the man
with plural wives will be exalted in heaven.
while the single man will, in the hereafter. be
debased. The laws recently passed by Con-
gress work grievous burden upon some
persons who entered into polysamy before any
law existed prohibiting that practice; their
action at that time sincere and, as they
thought, legitimate. These. we believe. should
have been permitted to remain unmolested In
present law ex post fact one and operates
to the destruction of family ties innocently es-
tablished. It separates children from parents
and drives into the world class of women un-
fit to earn their living, incapable of sup
porting their own children, and usually of an
age and in a position which makes legitimate
marriages to them almost impossible. The
consequence may be imagined While we have
no sympathy with the Mormon teaching, and be-
lieve the severest penalty should be imposed up
on those who in the future enter into polyeamy,
ishment should be put upon the innocent in
der to reach the guilty. The present laws will
tend to prevent the further practice of polyg
amy, but in no degree will they change the
Mormon's religious convictions, but rs the
gentle element increases, and new civilization
grows in and around the Mormons they will be
led to reason and reflect. Already many have
discovered the true situation and have volunta-
rily reliuquis their old customs and begin to
question the power and purity of the church.
Railroads have established communications be-
tween the Mormons and the outside world.
These communications have brought about
exchange of thoughts and customs.
Common interests have been established.
Schools have been opened in Mormon
towns, under the auspices of Protestant gen.
tile churches GENTLE money has developed
Mormon mines and given the Mormons en-
ployment. And while there is much bitter
partisan feeling both sides, all men, of
whatsoever faith, can live and do business any
where in Utah with peace and protection.
And the intermineling of the two elements
will, in few years, eradicate all hatred, and
the public issue in Utah will no longer be the
Mormon question
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
A Cat Astonishes an Emperor.

Berlin Letter.
wandering cat nearly did last week what the
French gene erals failed to do in the whole campaign
of 1901. stray pussy was within an ace of do
ing fo- the old Emperor William. of Germany.
The Kaiser generally regsles himself in front of
his bedroom fire before turning in, with a SUD-
per of fried fish, With his usual keenness for
economizine time, the old man eats his supper
seated on patent steaming apparatus which has
been ordered by his physicians. A small boiler
is placed the fire, and from this India
rubber tube conveys the steam into a small cell
under the patients chair While the Emperor
was eating his supper and enjoying the moist
heat of his steam engine a puff of smoke and
SCOT came down the chimney and made him start
so violently that the tube was disconnected and
the boiling water poured in volumes all over the
place. His luck never deserted him, however.
and he escaped without scald. to find eventual
" that the puff OF smoke was caused by cat.
which, attracted by the smell of his fried fish. had
rashly attempted descent of the chimney and
had got stuck IN the hue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24

crossings and the signals of the patrons.
The streets should be called at night, although
there are conductors. if the car be crowded. Cen
orally, conductors be told at which street
one wants off, So far as observed by oue at
least, the drivers have done well, all that
could be expected of them in their numerous
duties, serving Mr.. johnson well. Now. at last
let Mr. johnson show his nagnanimity and dc
his duty to his neighbor and TO the public. II
Mr.. johnson does not seem to know his duty
feel like doing it, and the Council has proved
utterly incompetent in that regard. then the
citizens should rise en- masse TO thu emergency
of the drivers, their own convenience and com
fort and the reputation OF the city. A.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
ShOrf-Hand.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Your statements and my letter to the press
are causing commotion among a most worth
less class of pretenders. who have long fattened
off of the hard earnings of the poor, to whom
they have been treless in promising
what they knew to be false in
every particular. One who is not
naturally quick in both thought and action can
never become a reliable reporter. Although GER
tain pretenders of this class advertise themselves
as NJ. s. and practical reporters they cannot re-
port forty words per minute The actua. success
in this branch here within three years is less
than half of per cent. of those who have paid
for such instruction. THOMAS j. BRYANT.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
Destructive Storms and Floods.

PEsTH, May 23.-The recent storms which
have prevailed throughout Transylvania and a
large portion of southern Hungary, have been
more disastrous than first reports indicated.
Fifty villages and several large towns have been
submerged, and many houses completely de-
stroyed. Terrible suffering from hunger and
exposure prevails throughout the stricken dis
trict. The city of Temesvar, in Hungary is
already crowded with refugees. and thousands
are arriving daily. many of them being COM
PEELED to sleep in the streets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

There VIII Be No Change in the Rules Gov
erning the Fishery Privileges.
LONDON, May 23-In the House of Commons
this evening. Sir James Ferguson, Political Sec
rotary for the Colonies, replying to interroga-
tion said the government had as yet, received
no answer from the government at Washington
20 the note sent to Secretary Bayard by Lord
Salisbury on March "a, concerning the Canadian
fisheries question. The government would
therefore, ne said, adopt similar measures re-
specting the treatment Of American fishermen in
Canada to those observed last season, and trusted
that Canada would apply them with judgment
and moderation, while il hoped that captains of
American vessels would not make necessary
their being called into requisition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
Mrs. Logan.

washingto Correspondence New York Herald.
Senator Logan's widow. who still fingers at
her suburban home Calumet Place. just outside
this city has never rallied from the shock and
grief caused by her husbands death. and her
friends think she will never be herself again
till he is family inferred She now makes fire.
ouent pilerimages TO look at him in his coffin IN
the vault belonging to the widow of Mr.. Hutch
inson. of this city, at Rock Creek Cemetery,
and says that since his face still looks natura, as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24

LONDON. May 23-Mr. Parnell is feeling bet
ter to-day than for several weeks. and his friends
derive much encouragement from the change in
his condition. He has been ordered by his
physician TO spend a season at the seaside, and
will leave probably for Bournemouth. imme-
diately after the adjournment of the House for
the Whitsuntlde recess
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
Mournful Kokomo Democrats.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
KoKoMo, May 23.-President Clevelands or
der, wiping out of existence twenty-five internal
revenue districts surprise to the local
Democracy. Collector Henderson and his corps
Of deputies had no intimation of the abolishing
of the Eleventh Indiana revenue district until
they read it in the Journal and the Presi
dents must be burning as a result of the
way in which the bourbons ara roasting him
and his reform administration. There is no de-
nyine the fact that Grover and his penchant for
reform do not suit the average Democrat of the
Eleventh district. Said prominent Democratic
official to the Journal correspondent day:
You see. we have been marching with brass
bands and carrying greasy torches for twenty
five years, only to have political hopes
blasted and to see the offices-the goal of our
ambition-go glimmering to a moro favored To-
cality, or turned over to the mugwumps" 9th
claim that Cleveland is fraud and that
should ne be renominated in 1888 he will be
buried beneath majority of twenty thousand.
The Office now located here will be removed,
with all its fixtures. to Indianapolis at the close
of the fiscal year. which is June 30 Democrats
here are badly ratified.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
She WAS Merciful.

John, l wish you get me rawhide or a shin
gle. 1 want to spank WILLIE" quoth ST. Louis
matron.
why not USE my slipper Mary9'
"On, / only want to spank him. don't want
to crush him"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
ILLINOIS.

Schwartz and Watt, the Rock Island Train
Robbers, Sentenced
MORRIS, May 23-Henry Schwartz and New
ton Watt, the Rock Island train robbers, were
to-day sentenced to imprisonment for life.
Leave was granted the prisoners to file bill of
exceptions by Aug. 81, 1887.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
Frenohmen Arrested bv GERMANY.

BERLIN, May 23.-Two Frenchmen named
Schmidt and Reinbold. employed by the Eastern
Railway Company at Belfort AIsace, were ar
rested by the German police at that place to-day
on the charge of having removed across the
boundary line German frontier post situated
between Montreal and Vienna.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.
Indications.

WASHINGTON May "a. Am.
For Indiana and Illnois-Warmer, fair wealth
er, preceded in Indiana by local rains: winds
generally westerly.
For West Virginia and Ohio-Threatening
weather; local rains; stationary, followed by
falling Temperatures; southerly winds. veering to
westerly.
For Lower Michigan-Local rains; falling, fol-
lowed by rising temperature; variable winds,
generally becoming westerly.
For Missouri and Iowa-Warmer, fair weather;
westerly winds, becoming variable.
For Upper Michigan and Wisconsin-Local
rains, followed by warmer fair weather; west
erly winds, becoming variable.
Local Weather Record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24

she sees it beneath the glass of his coffin that
these visits are her greatest comfort But her
friends naturally think that this keeps her grief
FRESH and prevents her turning her mind to any
thing more cheering His body is to be taken,
at some time. to Chicago for burial. but the date
is not yet fixed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24

William Andrews, amateur balloonist, fell
seven hundred feet from his burning ballon yes
terday. at Oskaloosa, Ia, and was crushed e.
death q roof The balloon lad ignited IN
mid air.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of
All Kinds in the Two States.
A Three Cornered Fight on Board Train
Disconsolate Kok0mO DemocratS-Fatal-
lyInjured in Runaway-Gleanings
INDIANA,

A Three Cornered Fight In Which Al
legged Detective Figures.
Special to the 1ndianap polls Journal.
NEW CASTLE, May 23.-The Panhandle COM
pany ran an excursion last evening from Rich
mond and way stations to the gas wells at An
derson. On the return trip there was quarrel
between swo young men of New Castle and
young named Reasoner, of Sulphur
Springs, over very trivial matter. Reasoner
drew a revolver and shot at Miles Goodwin.
At this juncture colored man, James Brown.
of this place, struck Reasoner in the face twice
with his fist, and ran toward the next car when
Reasoner fired at Brown, the ball taking effect
in the collar bone, causing but slight injury.
Reasoner was lodged in Jail. He claimed to be-
long to Cincinnati detective agency, and
hibited badge and other evidence in proof of
his assertions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
Obituary.

MADISON Ind, May 23.-Mr William o.
Lewis an iron merchant, died this afternoon,
aged ffty-eight.
LOUISVILLE, May 23.-J. s. Golladay. a mem
Der of the Fortieth Congress from the Third
Kentucky district died at his home in Logan
county, Kentucky, to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
New Gas Company at Kokomo.


KoKoMo, May 23-The East kokomo Natural
gas and Oil Company has just been organized,
with Hon. J. n. Loop president, l.. j. Kirk
patrick, secretary. aud DR.. Armstrong, treasurer.
contract for sinking well has been let to
Messrs. Stewart & Sweeney, of this city.
Should the project be successful the we'll will be
utilized by a large merchant Touring mill com
pany of Akron. o.. who propose to establish a
milling plant here for grinding all the wheat
raised in Howard county. The we'll is located
along the line of the T., St. l.. & K. c. railway,
half mile east of the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
Sarcasm of a Rival.

Milwaukee Sentinel.
Even the slow going people of Detroit have
dropped into the fashion of eating snails The
cannibalsi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
Cable Nntes

The two subalterns arrested at Strasburg for
high treason arc charged with betraying to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
Force of Habit.

The Judge
Hostess: Now, Mr.. Whatshures, how will
you take your coffee2"
Mr.. Whatshures (politely) straight, please
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
Fatally Injured in q Runaway.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, May 23-Gohn S. Edwards, as
SCISSOR of Steele township, fatally injured in
a runaway accident near Plainvie yesterday.
Edwards, his wife and child, started to church in
q buggy, and the horse became frightened and
unmanaceabIe. Mrs. Edwards and the child
were not dangerously injured
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24

To Beautfy the Skin
Use Colgate's superfne toilet soaps Cash.
mere Bouquet perfumed with rare and most
delicate odors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24
The Waste of Natural Gas.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
We have seen few illusions to the enormous
and extravagant waste of gas which is going on
in our State. but there has been no well-defined
protests against this reckless and inexcusable
prodigaiity. l am not certain but that the Gov
ernor ought to call the Legislature together and
have some special legslating done on this sub
ject making il penal offense to allow we'll to
be turned open. We have no certainty that this
gas supply is inexhaustible. At the rate wells
are being dug and the millions of cubic feet that
are allowed to escape just from pure wantonness
is crime, at least should be made to be
crime great hue and cry has been raised
against tue Standard Oil Company, by
which it has been thought to create
sentiment which will forbid that in
1t is claimed that the peoples interests will be
ruined, ETC. The people who wasting this
gas the State are working against their own
and every body elses interests beyond what the
Standard Oil Company could possibly do. There
must be some limit to this supply. People ought
not to lose their senses simply because there IS
plenty OF gas now
AS soon as the ''beltn is we'll established there
should be a law forbdding any man or company
digging for gas unless there is specific demand
for that particular we'll.
This much in the interests of economy and
common sense. X. V. HUNTER.
INDIANAPoIIs May %.
Tom Johnson's Cruelty to Animals.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal.
am informed that law in this State provides
for the arrest and fine of persons guilty of
cruelty TO dumb animals If this law
forced Tom johnson and all his employees would
be in the lock up three hundred days in the year.
and expend money enough in fines
purchase suitable animals to haul the
street cars mud wagons) in this city.
My convictions that the buzzards have
first mortgage every street-car mule belong
ing to the Citizens Streetrailway Company of
this city, and if Colonel Tom" don't do something
soon to liquidate their claim there will be gen.
eral foreclosure the part of the buZZards at
an early day What spectacle Tom Johnson's
mules and mud wagons called street cars present
upon the streets of a city of the pretensions of
est and meauest city in the land. L am interested.
and good deal pleased, at the righteous indigna-
ton manifested by the Journal toward the street.
service in this city. Colonel Tom and his pals
deserve all the ceEsure you can heap upon them.
Keep it up. Mr.. Editor; the people your
side. The citizens of city
deserving of good and ample street
car accommodations and will have them
in time; and il Colonel Tom" pursues his pres
emit course he can rest assured that there will
come such cry of indignation from the people
as will compel his company to furnish street
Accommodations commensurate with the money
paid by the people to the Citizens Street-rail-
wav Company. There is not a city in the coun-
try however small that can duplicate our street
cars for filth and Inconvenience
INDIGNATUS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-24

Local Weather Record.
TNnTANAp0TTC Nav 90 1912
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29

inG 81, / tell you now that I wiz ~ yUur.
| wife. / know that you are u~nedueat0d, but.
I have noticed that ~uneducated mem WAaA
marry educated women generally gDthEpSaf
life proud Of their wives
She stood, evidently expecting him t6l
catch her in his arms, but without the least
emotion he replied:
aWhen I axed you to marry me, I wuz III
hopes that you wuz hankerin' airter me Ell
much ez / WIZ airter you. The ~unhappiest
man I ever seed wuz a Teller that married =
Uni that didn't banker. airter him. An,
now, ef you offer to marry me jest becaze
you feel sorry fer me, let me tell you that
you're tryin' to put the Dhpd bride on tho
wrong boss"
.tJolilty, il Is not altogether because / In
jured you that I would become your wife.
You nrc so refreshing, ~so-so-well,t up
there among those hills / know that I would
be happy with you. ! think . great deal of
you anyway
"But you must banker airter mo. Do
YOUR
swell, If you must know she replied.
smiling through her tears, II do banker
after you" IN
He put his arms around her, md as he
pressed her to him, not knowing what to
say, he remarked: FINEST Christmas B
ever seed. Yes sir, called that pore old
man Gander Mills till no died an then
norated it all round the neighborhood that
old Gander Mills was dead"
" OPIH r. READ.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29

and pleaded for tbs pleasure OF going IA
church with her. She Rad declined and was
turning away when Aunt Patsy began to
advocate his cause. ssLet him go with you,
chile y she said. ssThar's . whole raft o.
young fellers in our ncighborhood that
amt as good as he Is. He stands well In
this here community an that's Q heap mo-
than ken be said fur o whole rossnl o
them, Let me tell you"
On their way to church Joliky showed but
little inclination to talk. He seemed to be
engaged in q mental struggle with some
harrassing difficulty; but as they were re.
turning, the air Of sprightliness which took
possession of him, proved that the struggle
had ended in o not wholly discour-
aging.
"See that gal with a red coat?" he asked.
"Yes," Miss Blake replied.
II could marry her Of ! wanted TO-" .
aIndeedan
"Ah hah; en- did you see the n with q
blue coat?n d ~. . y IT,
II thinkso." ..E.S.r ..h. j.
II could marry her if I wanted to-"
"Why you arc a mar Of extensive con-
quest" ss
'''I don't zackley un'erstan. whut you're
drivin' at, but eff you mean that I am a
slasher 'mong the women folks, wy I mus
say that you've driv the nail straight; but I
never hankered airter gittin' married till
here lately, an now old hanker's got me
bad. You mout not know it, Miss Whuts-
name, but I love you so hard that some
times l jest feel like goin' out in the woods
an hollerin' ez loud ez I ken whoop. Don't
love me thater way, do youF"
Il don't love you at all, SIR"
"Say you don't:"
"Yes, I say that I q don't"
"Why don't you? Amt I putty enough
to suit you9 This mornin' ez I went
in my mine 'lowin' eff it fell wet I wouldn't
yourself. How do you reckon it fellY
81 have no idea," Helen replied, strug-
Cling to smother a laugh:
"W'y, it fell ez dry O. or powder HON.
Whut air you goin' to do about ita" he
asked.
Nothing"
"Jest goin' to let me keep on hankerin'?"
tied"
He said nothing more until they had
reached Mrs. ellis yard fence. Then, as he
held the gate open he asked:
"Whut have you got agin me?"
Nothing whatever" she replied.
"But you don't like me-"
"Oh, yes, I like you-like you in spite of
myself. To me you are a joke over which
Inever grow tired Of laughing"
"Bleeged to you. Mout I come to the
~school-house to see you some time?"
occasionally, but you must not talk of
marrying"
She began to look forward to his visits.
She had discovered that he brought with
him spirit Of rest, and that his voice had a
peculiar music.
One afternoon as he was walking home
with her she said: II have done some
thing which I am afraid these people won't
like. Ever since I was q child I have
thought that I would like to find q den Of
robbers and make myself famous by inform
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29

t1ttOh, / know al zbout IT," Aunt Patsy
broke m. 81 know all his capers like . duck
knows the way to water"
~ suppose said Helen, ttsthat I should
have made q stronger effort to drive him
away
"'Jest as you liked about that, Aunt
Patsy replied. ''Thar amt no harm in the
fe,ier, IN all the folks know that he means
wea, only he's SO long In trifin'. It's bad
en-, ugh to be trifin', but when it comes to
beii' long an lank with it, WY my stairs
Joliky came in pretty soon and announced
that he had finished his task, and that he
had taken the squirrels into the kitchen.
'Wush you'd fry 'em an talk afterwards,
fur I'm hungry" he added.
Aunt Patsy gave him g searching look Of
pretended contempt, and, without replying
to his insolent remark, went into the
kitchen. ~
"Yss, sir,'' said Long Joliky, looking at
Helen; ''they called him Camden till he died
and then norated it all round that ole
Camden Mills was dead"
The recollection of this outrage, doubt
less, caused Joliky 70 feel deeply sorrowful,